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Kristina
O'Neal
Partner
AvroKO
In the summer after fifth grade, AvroKO partner
Kristina O'Neal read an eclectic group of books,
including Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of
Positive Thinking and Lewis Carroll's classic Through
the Looking-Glass. "If you combine the thinking
behind those two books, they make up a portion of
the creative DNA at AvroKO today," she says. "[We]
continue to be interested in designing hospitality
spaces with a balance of psychology and fantasy."
Raised in suburban California in the late
1970s and early '80s during a time when Bay Area
culture thrived on pop-psychology, O'Neal spent
much of her life attempting to merge those ideas
of environmental psychology and conceptual

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